Long-serving Research Assistant and fabulous undergraduate student, Mickey Singh, has been awarded a prestigious Carnegie Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship to investigate Speech and Gesture Integration processes in neurotypical adults and Adults with Autism. The project will be co-supervised by Prof. Alissa…
Very excited to see my first joint venture with Eleanor Heggdal Lønes and Yuki Kamide out in press!! The review will appear in a 2023 volume of Psychology of Learning and Motivation with a special focus on language production, so…
The summer was lovely but also busy and I didn’t have time to post about all my activities. So here is a short catch up of the highlights. In June, I attended the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Workshop…
Eleanor Heggdal Lønes recently presented some results from her PhD project at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference in York, England. Her poster title was ‘Do abstract priming, talker beliefs about the listener, and conceptual pacts all affect…
It was my great honour to deliver a talk to the Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum, a network of psycholinguistics researchers from across Asia, Australia, and beyond. My talk was entitled ‘Choose your words wisely: the role of semantic and sociolinguistic fetures…
Congratulations to Heather Graz for passing her 1st year upgrade viva with flying colours. She can now officially call herself a PhD student! Heather presented her Phd research on investigating the prediction processes of people with SSPI using the Visual…
I’m very excited to see this paper in print. Lin, H.-P., Kuhlen, A. K., Melinger, A., Aristei, S., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Concurrent semantic priming and lexical interference for close semantic relations in Blocked-cyclic picture naming: Electrophysiological signatures. Psychophysiology.…
Alissa Melinger was recently interviewed for a story about being tongue tied on the BBC Radio 4 show Sideways. She explained the basic processes involved in speaking and some of the ways the process can be derailed. You can listen…
After having been postponed twice due to the pandemic, we are very pleased to announce that the International Workshop on Language Production will hold a short online event in November 2021 on three non-consecutive days. The aim of this event…
We are pleased to announce an exciting PhD opportunity in our Speak your Dialect project. The project, entitled ‘Dialects, registers, and accents: investigating the use of sociolinguistic variants’, can be found on the FindAPhD webpage. This aim of this project…